The £50,000 house you can download from the internet

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The £50,000 house you can download from the internet

The Independent
Sep 12 2014
A modern take on traditional prefab housing may be the answer to Britain's homes crisis, with the launch of a two-bedroom property that anyone can put together in a matter of days. The first prototype of the WikiHouse 4.0 – which can be built for less......read more...

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Brainy, Yes, But Far From Handy

2006: Mako surgical (founder: roboticist Rony Abovitz) began offering a robot that offers precise haptic feedback to surgeons repairing arthritic knee joints.

Abovitz is now President & CEO of Magic Leap, Inc., whose motto is: "Most people are focused on making machines smarter. Wouldn't it be better if we focused on making people smarter?"

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BRAINY, YES, BUT FAR FROM HANDY
John Markoff
The Financial Express
Sep 7 2014

Robots still lack a critical element— a well-developed sense of touch
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Why Twitter beats Facebook for breaking news

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Why Twitter beats Facebook for breaking news
John Naughton
The New Review
Sep 7 2014

Exactly a month ago today, an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in the town of Ferguson, Missouri. There were a number of eyewitnesses, but the circumstances of the killing are disputed and are...
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